The Nvidia Tegra 4i chip promises unmatched graphical performance in smartphones and on-chip LTE, and while we are still waiting for the first commercial devices with it to come in the beginning of 2014, Nvidia is showing a working reference design phone right now.

The Tegra 4i Phoenix reference design is a very slim device measuring 7.9mm thin. Its width is 72mm and height is 138mm.

The handset carries the name ‘brand’ on the back, which will be replaced by manufacturers names in actual retail devices. It’s got a 4.8-inch 720p screen and a 13-megapixel camera, and the Tegra 4i is paired to 1GB of LPDDR2 RAM. The ‘brand’ phone comes in three models with 8GB, 16GB or 32GB of internal storage.

Best of all the Nvidia Tegra 4i ‘brand’ phone will cost less than today’s flagships coming in at around $300 to $400 without a carrier subsidy, and there will be an even cheaper Tegra 4i phones going as low as $200.

3.FlushGordon (unregistered)

On par with MEDIATEK? Haha, tegra 4i is build on r4 A9 architecture which should improve performance from A9 with 15% and pair that with 2.3 GHz(NVIDIA said that tegra 4i should run at this frequency) and you will have more power than Snapdragon 600 on 1.7 GHz, and possibly more battery efficient. This tegra 4i should be perfect for mid-range to almost high-end phones. And you get almost tegra 4 GPU power which is highest among mobile devices.

Yeah, they were the with quad. But we're talking about a 45 nm chip, that wasn't used on any phone released in the states that I'm aware of. Not hating. Just wish they would step their game up. 4 instance, Qualcom used 2 suck. But as of late they have some of the best mobile processors on the market

Well I agree at they are too slow. But this is their cheaper processor with less power that has around same or better performance than snapdragon S4 pro. On the other hand the real tegra 4 has way better performance than S600 orSamsungs Octa. I have seen Tegra 4 benchmarks in some sites and it scores around 37 000 in antu tu and around 20 000 in quadrant... But they are indeed always abit too late to get theirproduct on the market.

Well, it's 2013 and I'm pretty sure that most of the phones sold have A8 or even older chips inside. Of course, while reading all news about SG4 or HTC One you can think that these phones are mainstream, but they are not. For an average smartphone, A9 is very good choice and I guess this will hold true for the next year as well. Again, I don't talk about high-end.

Why not fhd 5" display, ir blaster, fm radio, front stereo speakers, sd slot, removable batt and minimize the top and bottom bezel to make it compact size and to compete to those high end handset line up!?

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